Which is why I keep whoring this topic:

https://improvedtouring.com...ad.php?t=22779

Failures in clear ability to read a reg (exhaust heat shields, using screw holes to run vac lines (andy), using cage regs to stiffen a suspension (me), etc) are not failures on the readers' part, it's failures on the writers' part. Write it clearly succinctly, and with as few words as possible.

This exhaust rule has been around since probably the beginning. Some read and apply it some way, others another. In the end, unless someone challenges it, it's a moot point. Were I to re-write it, I'd change the reg that allow "removal" of stock exhaust heat shields to something like "remove or replace". I mean, really, who gives a rat's patootie?

GA